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I read a post about people from Birmingham being self loathing and then I read 4 pages of self loathing. Thanks.

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(01-05-2013 05:00 AM)hooverblazer Wrote:  While you all debate Birmingham's tourism merits, downtown and southside is packed to the brim all over the place with Ole Miss fans for the bowl game. Lots of good things being said about bham on twitter

...great crowd at the 'bowl game which shall not be named'... maybe the city will throw some extra $$$ into the gate if we can ever get that return trip from Ol Miss... not sure if they would do that, but...ya never know...

...BTW, my 'multiple' great grandad was Colonel William P. Barker, who designed the 'core grid' of downtown Birmingham... around the railroad tracks, of course... Thankfully, he had no part in the traffic light system...

(01-05-2013 03:43 PM)GreenFreakUAB Wrote:  

(01-05-2013 05:00 AM)hooverblazer Wrote:  While you all debate Birmingham's tourism merits, downtown and southside is packed to the brim all over the place with Ole Miss fans for the bowl game. Lots of good things being said about bham on twitter

...great crowd at the 'bowl game which shall not be named'... maybe the city will throw some extra $$$ into the gate if we can ever get that return trip from Ol Miss... not sure if they would do that, but...ya never know...

...BTW, my 'multiple' great grandad was Colonel William P. Barker, who designed the 'core grid' of downtown Birmingham... around the railroad tracks, of course... Thankfully, he had no part in the traffic light system...

...and yes, he was a Colonel in 'that war'...to keep the thread theme going... I SURE didn't say he was perfect...

BTW - for all you attendance fans out there, BBVA - just over 59,000... just throwing it out there... Ol Miss travels well...to here, anyway...

If you lived in Mississippi, wouldn't you want to leave the place for a few days?

(01-05-2013 04:02 PM)the_blazerman Wrote:  If you lived in Mississippi, wouldn't you want to leave the place for a few days?

...bring 'em in by any means necessary...